Byron L. Barksdale, M.D. is a native of Georgia. He graduated
with a B.A.in Pharmacology from the University of Kentucky. He then pursued
a combined M.D.-Ph.D. course of study at the University of Kentucky College
of Medicine. At that time, the University of Kentucky was a well known center
of knowledge concerning the neuro-pharmacology of narcotics and controlled
substances. Lexington is also the home of Thomas Hunt Morgan who was the winner
of the Noble Prize in Medicine in 1933 because of his work in genetics of
fruit flies.

The mutant fruit fly discovered by Thomas Hunt Morgan

While at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Barksdale worked in
the laboratory of James W. Flesher, Ph.D. who induced tumors in mammals by
hypermethylating recipient DNA and other cellular components with benzpyrene
and 7,12-DMBA...known carcinogens found in tobacco when smoked. After completing
all doctoral coursework requirements for a Ph.D. in Pharmacology, he decided
to pursue private clinical medicine rather than an academic career in Clinical
Pharmacology. He received his M.D. from the University of Kentucky College
of Medicine at the age of 23. He successfullly completed a rotating internship
at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. For two years, he had a general
practice and worked as an Emergency Room physician at Methodist Hospital in
Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Barksdale chose pathology as his clinical medicine specialty.
He completed a four year (anatomic and clinical) pathology residency in Texas
and successfully passed the American Board of Pathology certification examinations.
He voluntarily re-certified in both anatomic and clinical pathology in 1999.
Dr. Barksdale holds licenses to practice medicine in the States of Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Hawaii and Florida.

Dr. Barksdale is a member of the American College of Preventive
Medicine, the American Public Health Association, the American Society of
Clinical Oncologists, Society for Biomolecular Screening, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow and Lab Inspector of the College
of American Pathologists, a member of the Lincoln County and Nebraska Medical
Associations. He also has been actively involved in the CUBA
AIDS PROJECT since 1995. He was a guest speaker on HIV/AIDS in Cuba at
the American Association for
the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Denver, Colorado in March
2003.

Dr. Barksdale volunteers, as the lead physician, in health
fairs coordinated with NEBRASKA
SKIN INSTITUTE ™ to screen for the early detection of malignant
melanoma while also educating citizens about primary and secondary measures
to decrease morbidity and mortality attributable to the increasing prevalence
of malignant melanoma in the USA today.